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Lessons in Agility From Software Development

The third installment of Steve Denning’s look at production agility is up at the Forbes Web site: In “How Manufacturing Can Learn From Software To Become Agile,” Denning contrasts the way software developers implemented systematic agility with the manufacturing world, which “continued to focus on enhanced efficiency and cost cutting, while agility and Agile focused on adding value for customers.

"The result,” he claims, “was that millions of jobs and whole sectors of industry were outsourced to Asia.” To which we say, “huh?” The article is here.